I cannot say happy new year now, you will think I have just woken up from a dream. Though I have, and now am awake alive, alert and enthusiastic.
In this life of mine, I have seen people leap into successful futures by deciding to risk all they have, and I have seen people succumb to fear in the assumption that its is safer that way. Eventually, they end up as victims of normalcy. I have observed how a full days activities can sum up that life is simply a series of choices made and consequences brought by each one of them.
We are scared of the future so much that we choose to live in fear and anxiety and the present life passes us as we try to protect ourselves of any dangers.
We do not chase our dreams for we are afraid that we do not have it all figured out. We choose to wait as other people race past us and plunge into the future of their dreams.
If you want something all figured out, then you are not living, you are simply existing. Life has no manual, its an adventure, tomorrow is unknown and the minute you try making it known, first you are mostly wrong and so you will strive to prove that you were right by trying to live by your set plans and two, you will have nothing out of the ordinary and the predictable. It is in such instances that you will end up finishing with the phrase "life is so boring." No its not, that's not life, that is existence and its passive. Its is getting ready to do something that will be done by others and not you. Plan and execute, otherwise you are not planning you are simply wishing. Wishes are procrastinated plans backed with no effort at all.
We all have passions that we are meant to discover, follow and live a fulfilled life then die empty. But instead, we recognize our dreams, share them with people and allow them to crush our own dreams. We give too much airplay for the haters and dream crusher that we end up with dampened spirits. These people mean well for us, they are protecting us form the unknown danger. The have seen others go down that road and fail. They are miserable failures too and misery needs company. You can choose to sit miserable with them and be safe or soldier on.
If you choose to walk on, you most probably walk alone. Enjoy your own company, this is your journey. The dream crushers are meant to make us live a normal life. But by whose standards, is my question. Who sets what is normal? I want to meet that person and let him or her know that there are group of people he did not include in his sample of the population to survey. Its the weird people, the ambitious people, the go getters, the dreamers, the risk takers and the wild at heart. I want to let that person know that normal is too mainstream.
This year, I want to inspire someone to be phenomenal. To be the best version of themselves. There will never be another you. If for that reason you cant be the best you, then you are failing yourself. I want to keep only the friends who can push their limits beyond reasonable doubt. I want to redefine reasonable. I want people who can ask me to bungee jump without a twitch of a muscle and really mean what they say. Because I am totally afraid of heights but I want to push my limits. I do not want safety. I want danger because I want to be a fearless influencer.
Go ahead, leap over your fears and make that decision. The world does not need to agree with you, its your dream not theirs.
